I was honoured this week to deliver the annual Newsam Lecture to police leaders from across the country. ‘Is modern policing social work?’ I asked in the title of my lecture. The police are facing something of a perfect storm. They witness every day the increasing vulnerability in the...

I’m moving this week – into a small studio in a car park. I will be working above a cello maker, next door to architects and just down the corridor from the women of colour collective gal-dem. So I will have good company, a window that opens and a...

Since the 1980s the term ‘welfare state’ has fallen out of use and out of favour. No recent government papers have used these words in their title. That was the claim made last week by the journalist and biographer of the Welfare State Nicholas Timmins. Timmins searched government records...